The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to ...

The startup Biome discovered that adding a feather-shaped tip to wind turbine blades could help generate 10% more power. LOGIN. ... a startup called Biome took inspiration from the Andean condor.

A Comanche-led conservation project takes on an increasingly urgent mission: protecting the birds revered by many tribes ...

This condor was bred at an Oregon Zoo facility near Carver, Ore., but 180 others live in the wild across North America — up from 23 in the 1980s. Rick Bowmer / AP Aug. 17, 2009, 1:22 PM EDT ...

An Andean condor named Yastay, meaning “god that is protector of birds” in the Quechua Indigenous language, spreads his wings after being freed by the Andean Condor Conservation Program in ...

ORICK, Calif. – The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong. “It ...

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Trading in condor parts is illegal in Peru but feathers, bones and even entire, desiccated wings are sold openly in Cusco and other tourism hotspots.